National Cancer Institute Thesaurus

Last uploaded: February 23, 2024
Preferred Name

Public Health
Synonyms

Public Health

Definitions

The science and practice of protecting and improving the health of a community, as by preventive medicine, health education, control of communicable diseases, application of sanitary measures, and monitoring of environmental hazards.

ID

http://ncicb.nci.nih.gov/xml/owl/EVS/Thesaurus.owl#C17039

code

C17039

DEFINITION

The science and practice of protecting and improving the health of a community, as by preventive medicine, health education, control of communicable diseases, application of sanitary measures, and monitoring of environmental hazards.

FULL_SYN

Public Health

label

Public Health

Legacy Concept Name

Public_Health

Preferred_Name

Public Health

prefixIRI

Thesaurus:C17039

Semantic_Type

Biomedical Occupation or Discipline

UMLS_CUI

C0034019

subClassOf

http://ncicb.nci.nih.gov/xml/owl/EVS/Thesaurus.owl#C17153

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